Joan Rivers Calls Annie Duke A “Nazi” and Poker Players A “Trash” at Celebrity Apprentice

Joan Rivers marked a new chapter of the breached between her and with poker player professional Annie Duke on The Celebrity Apprentice.

It all started in the Episode 207 of poker reality TV show Celebrity Apprentice which aired last April 12, 2009.




When Rivers was a project manager for KOTU and Duke was a project manager for Athena. The teams had to hold to have an auction for pieces of jewelry from Ivanka Trump’s line. The team who raised the most money won the challenge.

The team KOTU, Rivers sends golf player Natalie Gulbis to pick out the pick up the jewelry that they will be auctioning, However, Rivers was disappointed when Gulbis come back with a smaller pieces rather than big pieces that would indicate well on stage.

Athena, on the other hand, Duke sends Melissa Rivers, Joan's daughter to pick out their jewelry and Melissa returns with the big pieces. Brande Roderick and Annie Duke were busy raising funds for the auction.

At the auction, Duke works the group and receives several massive prices. The team Athena got a great start and sold their jewelry, raising a total of $153,000 in profit while KOTU only raised $92,000. The win meant that Duke’s charity, The Refugees International, and received $245,000 the largest paycheck in Celebrity Apprentice history.



Apparently, Joan Rivers dined in with Annie Duke the night before the Boardroom episode. Annie Duke told Joan Rivers that Annie was going to push Brande Roderick a Playboy Playmate to be laid-off in the boardroom.

Instead, Annie showed her favored in Brande Roderick and the R and B singer and their team Brian McKnight was laid off!

In the team KOTU, Natalie Gulbis was fired because of picking out the wrong style of jewelry.

On their second task , the 2 teams have to create a dish for Schwans and the new marketing campaign for their Live Smart Line.

For that task, the football superstar Herschel Walker was the project manager of the team KOTU and TV personality and CEO of West Coast Choppers and the husband of Sandra Bullock, Jesse James was the project manager for the team Athena.

In the team KOTU, they create a soy and orange chicken dish with yogurt and berries for the desert. The Schwans executives tastes the dish and liked it however the executive don't like the berries desert.

Team Athena creates a turkey meatball dish and apple tart for desert. The executives also like their meal but didn’t comprehend what the marketing campaign should be.



In the boardroom, the Chairman and CEO of The Celebrity Apprentice, Donald Trump announced that team Athena won again as Schwans executives prefer their dish the most. Unfortunately, the team KOTU headed back to the boardroom where Herschel Walker was fired because he had made the decision to make chicken despite it being a common dish.

Duke and the Rivers' group start off on each other. On Kotu’s strategy in the boardroom, Duke mentioned, “I think it was disrespectful to Ivanka to not make sure that every piece got sold. It’s about being respectful to the charity. It’s about being respectful to the task. It’s about being respectful to Ivanka.”

And Joan Rivers fires back, “You’re a despicable human being! You’re a perfect poker player. You’d spit on the ground and drown your own mother in it… You’re not that smart. Your ego is so beyond where you are.”

In the panel, Fashion model and Donald Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump questioned why Brande Roderick transferred the main elements of the task to Annie Duke. Duke answered, “I doubt that there’s anyone in this game who wants to win more than I do.”

Joan Rivers jested, “You’re damn right. You’ll bury your mother for it.”

Donald Trump fired Melissa Rivers.


Joan Rivers said, “You have a Nazi and a follower! I don’t work with scum!” On the other hand, Melissa Rivers, instead of leaving, she runs to her mother, telling off Celebrity Apprentice staff in the process. And to 2 producers, Melissa stated, “F*** you! F*** you! I’m not doing an interview!”

And between the edited expletives, the words “wh**e” and “pit vipers” were clear.

Melissa Rivers, accosted Duke and Roderick, “F*** you both! Goodbye!”

Joan Rivers also packed all her things and leave with her daughter and told Duke and Roderick, ”You are a piece of s**t!” “Your people give money with blood on it. I met your people in Las Vegas. None of them have last names. You’re a poker player. A poker player! That’s beyond white trash. Poker players are trash, darling, trash.”

Joan and Melissa Rivers left the Trump Towers, and Melissa Rivers shouted once more, "Lying f*** wh***s."